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It’s been a busy winter for the Downtowners as members recently hosted speaker AIA chapter 2010 president Kevin Klinkenberg (above with Dawn Kirkwood) to talk about Design Week in Kansas City, which wraps up today. “Kansas City Design Week is basically a whole week to highlight the importance of design,” Klinkenberg said.”Our target audiences are the [...]

The UMKC Bloch School of Business and Public Administration’s Lewis White Real Estate Center and the Allen and Gloria Block Family Foundation recently announced the formation of the Allen J. Block Scholarship Fund to support students at the Bloch School wishing to pursue a real estate career. Above, back row, from left are Stephen Block, [...]

The Building Owners and Managers Association of Kansas City held its regular monthly luncheon meeting recently at the KC Club featuring speaker Jim Peck (above), chair and chief elected officer of BOMA International. The mission of this association is to promote realization of the full value of the human, intellectual and physical assets of the [...]

From national real estate trends to discussions on the industrial and multi-family markets as well as the challenges of working with troubled assets, the eighth annual Integra Real Estate Conference at the Kansas City Convention Center this week hit all the hot topics.
More than 400 professionals attended the “Real Estate Trends & Investment Criteria Forecast [...]

Developers Diversified Realty (DDR) has appointed Kansas City-based LANE4 Property Group, Inc. to lease Merriam Village in Merriam.  LANE4 will immediately begin a leasing program focused on the Center’s available retail space and development parcels.
“LANE4 is pleased to be associated with an international owner and manager of shopping centers with significant holdings in Kansas City,” [...]

Metcalf 103 on the rise

The large shopping center known as Metcalf 103 is on the rise.
Above, Craig Cooper with NAI, d’Bronx manager Rose Davis, Betsy Bell and Kelsy Burvee; CBRE – David Hickman (Senior Vice President, retail leasing and Bud Light ironman triathlete); and TIC Properties Management – Diane Davis (regional property manager).
After four years of [...]

Grand Lofts
Rosemann & Associates, Architects is leaving another big mark on Kansas City’s development scene. The firm recently completed the design, and construction has begun, on the conversion of the 17-story historic 1006 Grand building into 134 apartment units to be called Grand Boulevard Lofts.

This $18 million project is a bright spot of development in [...]

More than 250 Kansas City community leaders, including former Chiefs GM Carl Peterson and his wife, Lori, and Jim Holland, Hunt Midwest Chairman of the Board, came together December 7 at the Foolish Club at the new Arrowhead for a retirement party honoring Lee Derrough. Following a 42-year career working for Lamar Hunt’s family – [...]

The Downtowners gathered at the Hollywood Room on Wednesday for a festive holiday luncheon meeting.

      Above, Bill Zahner, CEO of Kansas City-based A. Zahner Co., was the featured speaker who, among other things, talked about his metal creations that adorn everything from museums in Canada to New York City high-rise condos (he said Martha Stewart [...]